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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Update: Corvair was a Z-body, not a
Y-body GM platform.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/22 2:52 PM, Glen R. Wilson via
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<p>"Although it shared a variation of the Corvair body shell, the
Special looked nothing like its Chevrolet cousin and was
somewhat larger, stretching 8.4 inches (213 mm) longer overall
on a 4-inch (101-mm) longer wheelbase."</p>
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<p>It seems a "stretch" to say that the Buick Special and the
Covair shared a unibody platform when one was rear-engined and
the other was front-engined.<br>
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I own a 1964 Corvair Monza sedan, and it has to be lower than a
Ford GT40. It's also physically smaller than a 1998 Volvo V70
(or any Volvo 850). Not too surprising that while GM marketed
the Corvair as a compact family car, people were buying them
because they were sporty. That quickly led to the introduction
of the Chevy II, a more conventional car. The Corvair remained
in production for 10 years.<br>
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There's a '65 Corvair in my town with an Olds 215 mounted in a
mid-engine configuration (no back seat, good weight
distribution). The Olds version was the one Brabham and Repco
used in F1 and is preferred for performance because of the way
the cylinder heads bolt to the block in a more robust manner.<br>
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Overall, a very good article. I'm just a bit taken aback by the
notion that the Corvair was related to these bigger cars despite
the fact that they were contemporaries under the GM umbrella. <br>
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